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Palo Alto Networks (
PANW) pushed the Computer Hardware industry lower today making it today's featured Computer Hardware laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.1%. By the end of trading, Palo Alto Networks fell $1.49 (-2.1%) to $69.76 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 2,611,845 shares of Palo Alto Networks exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1,726,500 shares. The stock ranged in price between $67.00-$70.72 after having opened the day at $70.72 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $71.25. Other companies within the Computer Hardware industry that declined today were:
Overland Storage (
OVRL), down 8.2%,
Violin Memory (
VMEM), down 5.3%,
Omnicell (
OMCL), down 3.9% and
Silicom (
SILC), down 3.1%.

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. offers a network security platform in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Japan. The company's platform comprises Next-Generation Firewall that delivers application, user, and content visibility and control. Palo Alto Networks has a market cap of $5.1 billion and is part of the technology sector. Shares are up 24.0% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 11 analysts that rate Palo Alto Networks a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 8 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates
Palo Alto Networks as a
hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and solid stock price performance. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and feeble growth in the company's earnings per share.